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from my link log —
BBC computer literacy project archive.
https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/
saved 2020-03-26 https://dotat.at/:/JA63N.html

The DOJ has charged alleged Scattered Spider member Thalha Jubair, a UK national, with conspiracies to commit computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in relation to at least 120 computer network intrusions and extortion involving 47 U.S. entities.
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United Kingdom National Charged in Connection with Multiple Cyber Attacks, Including on Critical Infrastructure
A complaint filed in the District of New Jersey was unsealed today charging Thalha Jubair, a United Kingdom national, with conspiracies to commit computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in relation to at least 120 computer network intrusions and extortion involving 47 U.S. entities.

📏 Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances
#graphics

Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances

Compute as Teacher: Turning Inference Compute Into Reference-Free Supervision
Dulhan Jayalath, Shashwat Goel, Thomas Foster, Parag Jain, Suchin Gururangan, Cheng Zhang, Anirudh Goyal, Alan Schelten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14234

Compute as Teacher: Turning Inference Compute Into Reference-Free Supervision
Where do learning signals come from when there is no ground truth in post-training? We propose turning exploration into supervision through Compute as Teacher (CaT), which converts the model's own exploration at inference-time into reference-free supervision by synthesizing a single reference from a group of parallel rollouts and then optimizing toward it. Concretely, the current policy produces a group of rollouts; a frozen anchor (the initial policy) reconciles omissions and contradictions to…

I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
https://

Fun fact, your computer doesn't have USB ports (USB is a protocol, not a connector).
Funner fact, even if your computer has USB-C receptacles it might not be using any type of USB as protocol for a specific connection.
Funnest fact, there's at least a dozen different types of cables that use USB-C plugs with various capabilities, sometimes mutually incompatible and often silently falling back to slower protocols.

Cowboys' CeeDee Lamb confident in immediate impact vs. Commanders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-confident-immediate-impact-vs-commanders/587a99bf21fe1f42d…

South Korea restricts travel to Cambodia over online scam center kidnappings; the UK and US sanction Cambodia's Prince Group for allegedly running scam centers (Christian Davies/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/aa354f02-8e11-42d3-9f64-41b81a4f27df

"China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies"
#China #EV #ElectricVehicles

China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies
HONG KONG (AP) — China has reported that its electric vehicle exports doubled in September from a year earlier as its automakers expanded further into overseas markets. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Tuesday that exports of “new energy vehicles,” which include battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, jumped 100% last month to 222,000 […]

ParaAegis: Parallel Protection for Flexible Privacy-preserved Federated Learning
Zihou Wu (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China), Yuecheng Li (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China), Tianchi Liao (School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China), Jian Lou (School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China), Chuan Chen (School of Computer Science and E…

ParaAegis: Parallel Protection for Flexible Privacy-preserved Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) faces a critical dilemma: existing protection mechanisms like differential privacy (DP) and homomorphic encryption (HE) enforce a rigid trade-off, forcing a choice between model utility and computational efficiency. This lack of flexibility hinders the practical implementation. To address this, we introduce ParaAegis, a parallel protection framework designed to give practitioners flexible control over the privacy-utility-efficiency balance. Our core innovation is a strat…